Method of ornamenting.



" UNITED STAT S;

, PATENT OFFlCE.

GEORGE W. BllA-IR,-OF PITTSBURG, ANnFR NK-o. HORN, or JEANNETTE,

- PENNSYLVANIA.

METHOD OF ORNAM ENTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,602, dated April 15, 1902.

Application filed October 23, 1901.

T0 0% whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. BLAIR, of Pittsburg, Allegheny county, and FRANK O. HORN, of Jeannette, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Method of Ornamenting, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to the decorating of articles-such, for example, as globes, tiles, &c.and is designed to provide an improved method whereby an artistic effect may be obtained without the use of brushwork or highly-skilled labor. v

Heretofore in the decorating of lam p-globes, china, tiles, &c. an impression has been taken from a plate and transferred to the surface of the article and colors have then been dusted upon the pattern thus transferred, the article then being ready for firing; but such methods give crude results in that there is no blending or overlaying of the colors, so that the articles thus produced are unsatisfactory and do not compare with handwork.

Ourinvention is designed to greatly in].- prove the results obtained by the transfer method and to produce blending and overlaying of the colors, so that soft and shaded effects are obtained which compare favorably with those obtained by the use of the brush.

The invention consists, broadly, in making a transfer upon the surface to be ornamented,

dusting color thereon, then applying a sec-p ond transfer, which is matched upon the first, and then redusting with color or colors after the second transfer. A third or fourth trans fer, with additionaldusting of colors, may be used, and we do not limit ourselves to any particular number of transfers, as we consider ourselves the first to apply a transfer upon a colored design already applied.

In carrying out ourinvention We provide a plurality of impression-plates, each having substantially the same design etched or otherwise formed thereon, but difiering as to the shadows, the high lights, &c.-that is, for example, in using two plates we preferably make the first plate with a design in outline and containing the shadows, While the second plate contains the design etched in solidly, except for the high lights. A transfer Serial No. 79,668. (No specimens.)

of printing-oil or the usual sticky material is then taken on paper from the first plate and applied to the surface of the artiole, the paper then being removed. The operator dusts different colors upon the different portions of the design in the usual manner. The outlines and shadows are thus filled in upon the design in the different colors. The operator then takes a similar transfer from the second plate and lays it upon the already partly-colored design, matching the second transfer with the design of the first. .I-le then removes the paper of the second transfer and dusts in different colors upon the design. These colors supplement the first colors applied and blend with them to give a soft and beautiful effect, which we believe has never before been obtained except by hand or brush methods. The colors overlie each other in parts, and combined effects may thus be obtainedin shading, tinting, 850., which have never before been gotten except at large ex pense bymeans of the brush. After the coloring is dusted upon the second transfer the article may be fired or a third transfer and dusting may follow, as desired.

The advantages of our invention result from the obtaining of effects which are similar to those of high-priced ware and by means of a rapid and sim ple method which is quickly carried out with comparatively unskilled labor.

The design of the second plate may be and preferably is varied from that of the first in that additional parts are added to the design in the second plate, and the design of the plates may be varied to a considerable degree, and many other variations may be made in the number of plates and impressions used, as well as in the method of applying the colors to the transfers, without departing from our invention.

We claim- 1. The method of ornamenting,-consisting in making a transfer from the plate to the surface to be ornamented, dusting color upon this transfer, applying a second transfer embodying the same design over the dusted first transfer, and then redusting the second transfer with color; substantially as described.

2. The method of ornamenting, consisting in applying a plurality of overlaid transfers to the article and dusting the article with therein, and then redusting with color, and color after eachtransfer; substantially as defiring the article; substantially as described.

scribed. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set 3. The method of ornamenting, consisting our hands. 1

5 in taking a transfer from a plate which con- GFORGE W BLAIR tains the outline and at least a part of the FRANK O. HORN shades, applying this transfer to the surface to be ornamented, dusting on color, applying Witnesses: a second transfer which matches with the first, 1 0 but contains a solid design with thehigh lights GEo. B. BLEMING, L. M. REDMAN. 

